Cisco UCS B200 M5

The main differences of the Cisco UCS B200 M5 are the ability to densify resources, support virtual and physical environments. The most common area of use of such blade servers is data centers and structure distribution. Detailed description of the Cisco UCS B200 M5 blade server

The model is designed for distributed infrastructure applications that are common in a variety of enterprise environments. The Cisco UCS B200 M5 blade server is an optimal solution for information processing centers, as it features balanced density and high level of performance.

Cisco UCS B200 M5 is able to work under serious workloads, which allows you to deploy virtually any cloud solutions. Using servers of this type, you can easily serve various commercial software. The Cisco UCS B200 M5 blade server requires no additional power and cooling systems other than the standard ones provided in the chassis, and the computing power is sufficient for resource-hungry enterprise applications, including SAP HANA and Oracle..

Technical Data

Let’s look at the key technical specifications of the Cisco UCS B200 M5.

Form factor

The Blade Server has a half-width – half-width blade. A maximum of 8 such blade servers can be installed in the 5108 Blade Server Chassis.

Processor

The UCS B200 M5 model is a 2-processor Intel Xeon Scalable based blade that has support for the following processor lines:

• Bronze;
• Platinum;
• Silver;
• Gold;

The device also has the option of mounting up to 2 Nvidia GPUs – one graphics card each in the mezzanine slots on the front and back sides of the case.

Memory

Two three-channel memory controllers are installed on each of the blade server processors, each of which supports two RAM slots.

For each of the blade server processors there are 2 three-channel memory controllers, each of which supports 2 RAM slots.

As a result, the UCS B200 M5 can have 12 modules per processor and 24 for the entire system.

I/O

The UCS B200 M5 blade server features a mLOM (modular LAN on Motherboard) slot at the rear for converged adapters with the option to install an additional adapter on top, in a mezzanine slot. Adapter installation options:

• mLom slot:
  • Cisco UCS VIC 1440 ( 4×10-Gbps unified I/O)
  • Cisco VIC 1340 (2-port 40 Gigabit Ethernet, FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet))
• [rear] Mezzanine slot:
  • Cisco UCS VIC 1480 mezzanine card (+4 ports 10-Gbps unified I/O to VIC 1440)
  • Cisco VIC 1380 mezzanine card (+2 ports 40-Gbps unified I/O to VIC 1340 )
  • Cisco port expander mezzanine card (+4 ports 10-Gbps unified I/O to VIC 1440 )
  • Cisco nVIDIA P6 GPU rear mezzanine card
  • Cisco blade NVMe storage card

Another add-on slot is in the front – front mezzanine slot – for installing in it:

• [front] Mezzanine slot:
  • Cisco FlexStorage 12-Gbps SAS RAID Controller
  • Cisco FlexStorage 12-Gbps SAS RAID Controller with 2-GB cache
  • Cisco FlexStorage NVMe or pass-through module
  • Cisco nVIDIA P6 GPU front mezzanine card

Data Storage

The following options can be set to store local data in the blade server:

• 2 SD (Secure Digital)-cards for 32, 64 or 128 GB with mirroring function;
• 2 M.2 SATA flash drives for 240 or 960 GB;
• PCIe Flash – 560 GB High Endurance or 3.2 TB Medium Endurance, which are installed in Rear Mezzanine slot;
• two 2.5-inch hot-plug SSD/HDDs or NVMe from the front of the device.

Features of the Cisco UCS B200 M5 blade server

The following are among the main features of the equipment:

• The “Heart” of the blade server – 2 Intel Xeon processors, including the top one with 28 cores on 1 chip: enough to withstand the workloads of modern virtual and physical environments.

The “Heart” of the blade server – 2 Intel Xeon processors, including the top one with 28 cores on 1 chip: enough to withstand the workloads of modern virtual and physical environments.

• The hardware has 24 DIMM-cells into which DDR4 memory modules can be mounted. With each new added bar, the performance increases. The maximum RAM capacity can be 3TB.

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• Half of the slots can be mounted Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory.
• Network devices can be connected via ports on the Cisco VIC 1340/1440 40/10 Converged Adapter, Gb in the mLOM slot + Cisco VIC 1380/1480 add-on adapter and Port Expander (mezzanine slot).
• The standard storage subsystem can be supplemented with 2 2.5-inch drives. Both SSDs and mechanical disks can be connected.

Benefits of the Cisco UCS B200 M5 blade server

The fairly powerful hardware combined with Cisco UCS Manager management software makes the UCS B200 M5 an extremely high-performance and maximally secure solution.

Because of the careful design of the case and high density of several servers, UCS B200 M5 is one of the most compact and affordable devices.

Other advantages of this blade server include the following:

• 1 expansion card adapter each on the front and back of the case;
• large selection of expansion cards;
• 2 GPUs;
• local disk storage subsystem Cisco Flex Storage;
• 2 small form factor slots (SFF, 2.5″) for installing SSD/HDD media;
• connect up to 2 M.2 SATA or SD memory cards;
• maximum throughput of 80 GB per second on LAN/SAN interfaces.

The Cisco UCS B200 M5 blade servers are capable of performing the most diverse data uploads to local storage.

To work with resource-intensive applications in the machine is realized the possibility of connecting up to 2 graphics processors, well thought-out control mechanism is able to transfer many tasks in the autonomy mode.